Spine Institute - Melbourne Australia

30/11/2024

STAY CONSERVATIVE: While lumbar surgery, specifically discectomy, may offer a quick pain relief in the short term, research indicates that these advantages diminish over time, typically disappearing after one to two years. Additionally, surgery carries inherent risks, as detailed in the provided article.

https://journals.lww.com/jbjsjournal/fulltext/2021/12010/treatment_for_chronic_sciatica__do_we_have_new.15.aspx

20/10/2024

Restoration of disk height through non-surgical spinal decompression is associated with decreased discogenic low back pain: Low back pain decreased, and disc height increased. The increase in disc height and reduction in pain were significantly correlated.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20615252

22/09/2024

It is important to select the right clinician. A skilled clinician will accurately diagnose a medical condition before using diagnostic imaging to confirm it. This article explores the relationship between clinical symptoms and MRI findings in disc herniation within the lumbosacral region.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39300046/

13/07/2024

Non-Surgical Spinal Decompression improves pain and disability in patients with chronic low back pain.

http://www.kptjournal.org/journal/view.html?uid=1347&page=&sort=&scale=10&all_k=SPINAL+DECOMPRESSION&s_t=&s_a=&s_k=&s_v=&s_n=&spage=&pn=search&year=&vmd=Full

13/07/2024

Try to prevent back surgery because: Patients who undergo spinal surgery have a higher risk for postoperative depression than patients treated for other surgical or medical conditions known to be associated with depression.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27836112/ #:~:text=Conclusion%3A%20Patients%20who%20undergo%20spinal,to%20be%20associated%20with%20depression.

11/02/2024

This pilot study confirmed the expected significant impact of non-surgical spinal decompression therapy on pain and disability levels in patients with lumbar and cervical disc herniation. There was no significant association between age and magnitude of therapy outcomes. Spinal decompression therapy yields the same effect on patients among all age groups.

https://files.btlnet.com/corp/documents/06250d96-4ae8-4985-9941-c01c4fb07aa5/SD_CLIN_JOPS_Age-groups_Kasimovich_EN100.pdf_1684912621_original.pdf

31/12/2023

Success in Non-Surgical Spinal Decompression treatment for low back pain and radicular pain caused by lumbar disc herniation or protrusion.
This study concluded that nonsurgical spinal decompression was associated with a reduction in back pain and radicular pain and with an increase in disc height.

https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.4103/err.err_34_18.pdf

27/08/2023

According to this research there is a 97% success rate in treating lumbar intervertebral disc herniations conservatively without surgery.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32677528/

27/08/2023

In a 5-year follow-up study on non-surgical treatment of ruptured lumbar disc herniation. The excellent and good rates were recorded in 73.24% of patients.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32452177/

27/08/2023

REAL-TIME MRI IMAGING EVALUATION DURING TRACTION: change in a disk shape, disk reduction with an opening in the intervertebral disk, reduction of a herniated disk volume, separation of the disk and adjoining nerve root, and widening of the facet joint.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25611735

27/08/2023

NON-SURGICAL SPINAL DECOMPRESSION is associated with decreased discogenic low back pain: Low back pain decreased, and disc height increased. The increase in disc height and reduction in pain were significantly correlated.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20615252

16/07/2023

Is lumbar fusion the solution for a lumbar disc problem?
According to this research, the overall occurrence rate of adjacent segment degeneration (ASD) increases to 50% !!!!
A solution in one area creates a problem in another location (usually above or below).
Non-Surgical Spine Decompression might be the answer to avoid surgery.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2651551/

28/05/2023

This randomised, clinical, controlled trial showed that it is reasonable and safe to encourage patients with radiation down the leg due to a lumbar disc herniation to continue nonoperative treatment. The length of time for having the neurological symptoms was also not significant.

https://dynamicchiropractic.com/article/59318-best-practice-disc-herniations-with-serious-neurological-defects

The Spine Institute offers the latest non-surgical treatment for Disc Disorders and Back Pain!!!

02/04/2023

Validating our work of "No-Surgical Spinal Decompression" is this research from February 2023: "At 1G and 0G gravity, the following happened to the discs: the compressive forces on lumbar discs decreased 62-70%, the muscle forces decreased 55.7-92.9%, while disc water content increased 7.0-10.2%, disc height increased 2.1-3.0%, disc volume increased 6.4-9.3%, and ligament forces increased 59.5-271.3%
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36792893/

15/02/2023

Non-Surgical Spinal Decompression creates the following:
(-)The posterior disc space increases in height.
(-) Decompression decreases disc protrusion and reduces stenosis.
(-) Intradiscal pressure drops under distraction up to negative -192 mm Hg.
(-) Intervertebral foraminal openings enlarge, giving potency to the nerve
(-) Decompression stretches the ligamentum flavum to reduce stenosis.
(-) Decompression increases metabolite transport into the disc.
(-) Decompression opens the facet joints and reduces posterior disc stress.

The Spine Institute offers the latest non-surgical treatment for Disc Disorders and Back Pain!!!

13/02/2023

Non-Surgical Spinal Decompression might be the answer to this paper: "Lumbar disc herniation (LDH) can be spontaneously absorbed without surgical treatment. However, the pathogenesis and physiological indications for predicting protrusion reabsorption are still unclear, which prevents clinicians from preferentially choosing conservative treatment options for LDH patients with reabsorption effects".
https://arthritis-research.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13075-022-02894-8

28/11/2022

Draw the protruded disc, back toward the centre of the intervertebral disc in Flexion-Distraction !!! (November 2022 research)
https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/imr.2022.0002

25/09/2022

LUMBAR DISC HERNIATION CAN BE SPONTANEOUSLY ABSORBED WITHOUT SURGICAL TREATMENT (August 2022 Research. - Dr. Sommer Research pearls).
The biological mechanisms involved in the phenomenon of lumbar disc herniation reabsorption, including macrophage infiltration, inflammatory responses, matrix remodeling, and neovascularization. Therefore the basis of the clinical application for promoting reabsorption with technics like non-surgical spinal decompression might be the future preferred option.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35999644/

The Spine Institute offers the latest non-surgical treatment for Disc Disorders and Back Pain!!!